starring Surya, Jyothika and Jeevan in the lead roles. The film was written and directed by Gautham Menon

and the music was composed by Harris Jayaraj. It was Gautam Menon's second Tamil movie after Minnale

and was one of the five most top-ranked Tamil movies of 2003 for return-on-investment, based on collection

figures from theatres, distributors and producers.[3] It was considered a comeback film for producer

Kalaipuli S. Dhanu.[4] Kaakha Kaakha was a major milestone in Surya's acting career, establishing him

as a lead actor and carving a niche for him in the Tamil film industry.
Gautham remade the film in Telugu as Gharshana (2004) with Venkatesh and Asin in main roles.

In 2011, further remakes of the film were released in Kannada as Dandam Dashagunam with Chiranjeevi

Sarja and Ramya and in Hindi as Force (2011) with John Abraham and Genelia D'Souza.
Plot
A badly-injured Anbuchelvan (played by Surya Sivakumar) is lying on the bank of a stream, thinking about his

wife Maya and how he needs to rescue her. The story moves quickly from this opening scene to a flashback of

Anbuchelvan’s time as a young policeman.
Anbuchelvan and his friends, Shrikanth, Arul and Illamaran, have been recruited for part of a special unit

of police officers who are battling organized crime in Chennai, Madras, India. Violent and laconic,

Anbuchelvan finds little patience for a personal life. The unit is ruthless in its confrontation with

criminals, going as far as assassinating gang members; the unit is finally disbanded by senior authorities.

Anbuchelvan is posted to traffic duties.
One day a schoolteacher named Maya (played by Jyothika Saravanan) rebuffs Anbuchelvan's routine questions

regarding safety, not knowing that he is a police officer. He meets her again when she and her friend are

questioned for driving without a license. However, Anbuchelvan lets them off with a warning. When one of

Maya’s students has a problem with local kids, she asks Anbuchelvan for help. Anbuchelvan resolves this

problem, a mutual respect grows between them and they begin seeing one another. When Maya gets into a road

accident, Anbuchelvan helps her to recover and they fall in love. Shrikanth and his wife, Swathi, become

good friends with Anbuchelvan and Maya.
In response to rising levels of crime in the city, when the son of an influential movie producer is kidnapped

and killed, the special unit is reassembled. The unit tracks down and kills the head of the gang that was

responsible. The brother of the gang leader, Pandya (played by Jeevan), returns from Mumbai and takes over

the gang, promising revenge over his brother’s death. Pandya and his gang members target the families of

the men in the special unit, but the police close in and a badly-injured Pandya barely escapes Anbuchelvan.
Maya and Anbuchelvan get married and leave for Pondicherry. But the next day, Pandya and his thugs enter

the cottage the honeymoon couple are staying in and torture Anbuchhelvan, leaving him for dead.

They kidnap Maya. This brings the viewer back to the opening scene of the movie, in which Anbuchelvan

is battling for life but thinking only about rescuing Maya.
Shrikanth and Arul arrive at the cottage, discover Anbuchelvan and take him to the hospital. Shrikanth

reveals that his wife Swathi was kidnapped earlier and confesses that it was he who gave away Anbuchelvan’s

location to Pandya, for the safe return of Swathi. Shrikanth feels extreme remorse over what has happened.

Whilst in the hospital, they receive a message from Pandya to meet him at a particular location.

When they go there, they find a package containing the decapitated head of Swathi. Shrikanth is distraught

at seeing his wife's head and in an agony of grief and guilt at being responsible, probably, for Maya's death

as well, he commits suicide by shooting himself.
Anbuchelvan tracks down Pandya before he can escape from Tamil Nadu and fights with the gang. Pandya stabs

Maya to distract her husband and she dies in Anbuchelvan’s arms. An enraged Anbuchelvan tracks down Pandya and,

in a final encounter, kills him.
An epilogue shows that Anbuchelvan, after the death of Maya, continues his job as an IPS officer some weeks

later.
An alternative ending was shot and placed in the DVD version with a running commentary by Gautham Menon,

in which he explains why this ending was not used in the version for cinema release.
Main characters
Anbuselvan
Surya Sivakumar plays Anbuselvan IPS (Indian Police Service). This was the first blockbuster movie to star

Surya Sivakumar (Sivakumar's son) as the leading actor. In it, he plays the role of a police officer who gains

the cinema audiences' support by killing criminals wherever he meets them. He believes that a family would be

a hindrance to performing his duties without fear and he likes being single.
Pandya
Jeevan plays the villain's role in Kaakha Kaakha. His raw portrayal of this gangster made people notice him as

an actor. Pandya is someone who doesn't care about anything. His only motive is to take revenge for his

brother's death and he will go to any level to inflict pain on his enemies and make them fear him.

Jeevan went on to win a Filmfare award for best villain, 2004, for his role in this film.
Maya
The character of Maya is portrayed by actress Jyothika Saravanan as a beautiful young woman who is

initially frightened by Anbuselvan. Later, she gets to know him and falls in love with him.

The complete opposite of Anbuselvan's character, Maya is a schoolteacher who is very intelligent,